Illegal shoes

Oh my, the good people of Arizona plan to deport the illegals among them. Probably a good idea, since there is massive unemployment and I am almost sure that all those out of work real estate sales people and mortgage ponzi schemers would like nothing better than to learn to wash dishes, pick fruit and landscape McMansions.

What I love about this country is how happy and proud we are to bathe in our hypocrisy. It never ceases to bring a smile to my face when someone running for political office ends up coming clean about their cleaning woman/nanny and how they hired an illegal alien to raise their children, or clean their pool. These are often the same people demanding tax cuts to stimulate the economy. How about tax paying some back taxes you failed to pay for your illegal workers? Nah, why worry about it now?

Arizona is one of those states with an awful lot of Mexican American people living there, some probably came to this country illegally, some not. Personally, my family has lived in America for a very long time, I believe 6-7 generations at this point. The story goes that my great great grandfather crossed the plains in a covered wagon. Yikes. An interloper without proper legal papers, even back then. This country has a long history of accepting immigrants and allowing them to make something of themselves in the land of the free. Of course, my sense is that it is much easier for a white skinned immigrant to cross into our borders, but that could be my own prejudice.

A lot of old people retire to Arizona. I wonder who is mowing their respective laws and cleaning the bugs out of their respective pools. Certainly not the elderly. If there is one thing I know about the elderly, they do not do a lot of mowing.

The bottom line with the new Arizona "ship em back to where they came from" law is how hard it would be to be in law enforcement at a time when such a law has been enacted. Just how does one know if someone is illegal or not? Especially in a place where the sun shines so much that everyone is tanned, leather skinned and possibly armed? Well, look below, apparently there is a tried and true way to spot them illegals.